Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 21

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• Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon
  Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon
• First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes, Tissandier collection
  First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes, Tissandier collection
• John Diefenbaker
  John Diefenbaker
• Pierre Amine Gemayel
  Pierre Amine Gemayel
• Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
  Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
• "God Defend New Zealand"
  "God Defend New Zealand"
• Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
• La Ronde in 1973
  La Ronde in 1973

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
World Television Day	stub
1783 – The first successful untethered flight by humans in a hot air balloon was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in Paris.	Hot air balloon has unreferenced section; History of ballooning has multiple issues; Pilâtre de Rozier has no footnotes; d'Arlandes has no references
1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Christians in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).	multiple issues
1962 – The Sino-Indian War ended after the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a ceasefire.	not all viewpoints, external links
1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.	lots of CN tags (5)
2006 – Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was assassinated in Jdeideh.	lead too short
2008 – U Gambira, who led Burmese monks in the failed Saffron Revolution against military rule, was sentenced to 68 years' imprisonment.	source is clear a series of sentences were passed between 18 and 21 November, not all in one go
2013 – Massive protests started across Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.	outdated
Columbanus |d|615|	"ibid" yellow banner
Georgius Agricola |d|1555|	Uncited section
Bernardo Pasquini |d|1710|	ref improve

Eligible

• 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital Tbilisi and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
• 1877 – Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a device able to record and play sound.
• 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
• 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, albeit for only one day.
• 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, Canada, killing 21 people; the subsequent trial brought future prime minister John Diefenbaker to greater political attention.
• 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from [[WABC (AM)|Template:Nowrap]] for his role in the payola scandal.
• 1961 – La Ronde (pictured), the first revolving restaurant in the United States, was inaugurated.
• 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: American forces raided the North Vietnamese Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to rescue 61 American POWs who were thought to be held there.
• 1974 – Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
• 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the King", which had been the traditional anthem since 1840.
• 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
• 2012 – A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 28 people on board.
• Born/died this day: | William de Corbeil |d|1136| Anne de Xainctonge |b|1567| Voltaire |b|1694| Francis Folger Franklin |d|1736| Hetty Green |b|1834| Alexander Berkman |b|1870| Mollie Steimer |b|1897| Richard Thomas Glyn |d|1900| Jadunath Singh |b|1916| Stan Musial|b|1920| Milka Planinc |b|1924| Victor Chang |b|1936| 'Leopold Berchtold |d|1942| Catherine Bauer Wurster |d|1964| Michael Strahan |b|1971| Annie |b|1977| Davido |b|1992|

Notes

• Mayflower appears on November 19, so Mayflower Compact should not appear in the same year.

November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the MayflowerTemplate:'s passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
• 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
• 1945 – Manzanar (pictured), a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
• 1980 – A fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, killing 85 people and injuring 650 others.
• 2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.